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- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: To be honest with the Taoiseach, the people listening this morning to all this stuff about technology are not really worried about that.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: They would much prefer to have a local garda with local knowledge on the ground.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not good enough to say, "It is not as good as we might like it to be", but that is what the Taoiseach is saying.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Approximately 28,000 burglaries are reported every year. The Taoiseach got it wrong in terms of the closure of Garda stations and he is out of touch with rural Ireland and with the lives of people on the ground.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Councillor Noel Gleeson summed it up best-----
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----when he said:Rural Ireland is being decimated as regards law and order, that’s the bottom line. We can’t say it often enough and hopefully someone might heed us... Will the Taoiseach heed what people across the country are saying?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Careful, Dinny. Look in your own corner.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am sure the Taoiseach is aware of the harrowing accounts in today's newspapers of the incredible trauma that Mark and Emma Corcoran had to endure at the hands of seven criminals who travelled from Dublin to burgle the Corcoran family home in Tipperary. Their daughters spoke of how they thought their Daddy was going to die at the hands of these criminals. The criminals wore balaclavas and...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is a very weak response. The Taoiseach is speaking like a commentator who is helpless to do anything about it. His recent interview in the Irish Independent was quite remarkable. In it he declared to the nation that he had been told recently that the Garda that travelling gangs are evading gardaí by driving at high speed and wearing night-vision goggles. The headlines blared...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: What will the Taoiseach do about it?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will he listen to the people in rural Ireland? I mentioned John Comer of the ICMSA, Tim O'Leary of the IFA, the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors and local councillors from all parties.
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: In respect of the criminal justice Bill, gardaí are dealing with very outdated equipment and surveillance technology and they are hopelessly under-resourced to fight organised crime, general criminality, fuel smuggling and laundering, smuggling and so on. When can we expect the criminal justice (offences relating to information systems) Bill, which is to deal with cybercrime, to be...
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: It has not happened yet.
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I have already received the note. It states that nothing has happened.
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: We read today that a 90 year old woman faces a €1,500 bill in a satellite dish case following a planning enforcement by Dublin City Council. Is this what we have come to? All of us in this House have heard of numerous cases where councils failed to take enforcement measures against people who flagrantly disregarded planning laws, yet a 90-year old woman was taken to court over a...
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----the review is being published but no system has been put in place. There is also reference to integrated care, cost control, health administration, capital developments and mental health, among other areas. This is important. Will the Taoiseach confirm to the House that everything I have outlined that he said would be implemented within the lifetime of the Government will not be so...
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I remind the Government and Government Deputies that they should please be very careful-----
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----about what they will promise the people, because they will not buy it in the context of the programme for Government. It is an extraordinary document. I asked the Taoiseach two years ago whether he would review it, rewrite it or update it, but he refused.
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: When the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, said he could not implement the changes, the Taoiseach gave out to him and said, "Behave yourself, Minister Varadkar, you had better implement it." Could the Taoiseach confirm that this is not going to happen within the lifetime of the Government?
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Could he also explain why the health information Bill has been taken off the list of legislation that was published by the Chief Whip recently? It has been on the legislative schedule for four and a half years, each year without fail. It was a commitment to introduce a major upgrade in IT capabilities in the health systems.